Why would it cost tax payers millions of dollars? Is it the judge making that money? The prosecutors who have a specific salary they are paid? Is it the court clerks? Why assume this would cost millions? It costs the defendant a fuck ton of money because they have to pay a defense attorney, but where does this “millions” come from for one trial?

Mnemic’s cover of Duran Duran’s Wildboys

Yeah, that’s not how it works. I too have empathy for the victims, but I also understand how real life works. And allocating multiple millions of dollars to nothing but a symbolic gesture would be wasteful spending of the other millions of Chicago taxpayers dollars. You can have empathy without allowing it to blind you, you can feel bad for what these victims have been through and still be objective and rational. And the reality is, this man is already likely going to die in prison for what he’s done, piling on isn’t going to change anything. Whether you like it or not. Intensive therapy will help these victims far more than any additional conviction will. I hope they get it.

I am literally a musician and production engineer with multiple degrees in the field and over a decade of professional experience, don't default to such a lazy assumption about how much music I listen to in order to start a useless pissing contest to try to change the subject.

I'm sure next you'll just say that a decade of working in the field is nothing, and that because you're far older than me I don't really understand music like your generation does and still ignore the point that literally all of this is based on assumptions you've made.

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LC’s Hallelujah’s synths hit so hard. To some they sound cheesy/dated but they really have an emotional resonance for me.

Tom Waits' Downtown Train and Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. I don't like the cover versions.

Mountain Dew - Grateful Dead

Mountain Dew - Gregg and Duane Allman

Both are amazing covers

Listen to great gig in the sky and then some Olafir arnalds. I’m pretty confident these will change your mind

My SHARONNA by the Knack. 2 1/2 minutes of Chuck Berry licks on hyper speed. No Eddie Van Halen tricks, just blues rock soloing that takes the song to a higher plain.

Don’t scoff. Go to YouTube and listen. Don’t play the radio edit where they cut the solo in 1/2.

Our vinyl had a mark where the solo started from me moving the needle back there over and over.

This song made me cry just getting the video for your post.

The decision to move forward should be based on a grand jury if the victim elects to press charges, and there is sufficient evidence. That is the DA serving taxpayers, b/c the victims are taxpayers.

And again, separate crimes, separate punishments. If the judge choose to run those sentences concurrently, so be it.

And yes, I am speaking with my emotions because I have empathy for the victim. As we all should. They have right to have a crime committed against them be prosecuted just as the others did. End of story,

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I agree. Random Access Memories doesn't do anything for me. I literally feel bored when listening to it.

But, I do know tons of people who enjoy the shit out of that album. It's just not for me and I've listened to it maybe 10 times.

Anything by R Kelly ir Michael Jackson

Buckingham Green by Ween

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Jesus you sound so weird. Just listen to music and enjoy yourself.

Autotune is destroying music song by song.

Ville Friman from Insomnium, Finnish death metal band.

He had a PhD in evolutionary ecology from Helsinki University and is a Research Associate at University of York.

>So he says

No, so his old school teachers and his family say. He's not insecure about his intelligence and ultimately doesn't value it as any kind of just hierarchy, which is why he doesn't feel the need to present as an idiot's idea of a smart person. Same with Mark E. Perhaps there's a lesson for you there.

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Monsters - James Blunt

You said exactly “This is how my brother ended up in prison on a lighter sentence than he deserved.” I didn’t make that up, YOU said that.

You’re letting your emotions speak. If those victims feel like R. Kelly’s 30 year federal sentence isn’t already enough simply because their names aren’t attached to that conviction, they need to seek intensive therapy. No prison sentence is going to fix that. It’s unreasonable to suggest that a separate conviction with their name on it would fix what’s going on with their mental and emotional state. Revenge never feels as good as you think it will. Therapy does though.

If you’re the DA and you’re meant to be objective and have the responsibility to allocate taxpayer dollars for what will benefit the majority, you don’t go being wasteful so you can exact revenge on someone whose already convicted on similar charges, that someone being a 56yr old man who is not going to get out of prison for at least another 25 years. That would be irrational, wasteful. That would be a move that would be fueled by emotion, not rationale, logic or be seen as a sound financial decision.

It honestly just feels like you've got a pretty limited view of "musicians" and are just running off of an assumption you've made based on the music you listen to specifically (and interviews with those artists), rather than the wider world of music as a whole.

I can keep listing intelligent musicians for you (hell, take literally anyone from the album I'm currently listening to and they'll all tick that "intelligent" box, as well as articulate, which is apparently more important to you - album is Goat Rodeo Sessions with Chris Thile, Yo Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, and Stuart Duncan), but reading your other comments it seems like it would be an exercise in futility.